Re: Miracles & Magic
Peace brother psyah, as far as I understand from the quran, islam is about proof and proving not make beliefs. It is deen not mazhab. Before you or anyone else could accuse anyone of deviation from islam one needs to prove what true islam is. You will agree that true islam is in the quran and people who can tell from the quran what true islam is, are those who ponder over the quran not fall in trap of make beliefs. Make beliefs are anti islam because by having those beliefs you oppose the quran.
We should follow message of Allah as delivered by his final messenger not make beliefs spread by ignorant and foolish people who claim the title of ulema and are treated as ulema by ignorant following. Anyone who has any information and can make sense of it is an aalim to the degree one is and one can and anyone else is simply put an intruder and an imposter who claims to be what one is not. Such people can be easily exposed through exchange of ideas because they talk nonsense ie without any solid foundation. The question is, what is solid foundation?
The whole argument between the messengers of Allah and their opponents rested on proof and proving. Even the final messenger was told to say to his opponents that if you think this quran is wrong then get some other book that you can prove is better than the quran and I will follow that.
The simple test therefore for mullahs’ ignorance is to ask them to define proof and prove the quran word of Allah according to their definition. If they cannot, that proves them ignorant and make beliefs inventors and spreaders. If we read the quran and see what is said about mullahs of bani israel that should start ringing alarm bells. Our time mullahs are worse than bani israel. Why do you think there are so many sects? It is because mullahs are busy telling everyone who is right and who is wrong by way of finger pointing and drawing lots rather than proof and proving. The confusion these foolish people have created is main reason for so many divisions among muslim ummah. What you need to realise is the fact that islam is based upon entire quran not just a verse from here and a verse from there. Since islam is based upon entire quran and quran needs interpretation and when people are going to interpret it opinions are going to differ. So all opinion are always on the table for discussion not because there is a problem with the quran but because there are problems with people ie people need time and information and sense of making sense of information and no two people are exactly the same when it comes to knowing things for sure unless they have had similar life experiences.
Quran is a fixed text, fixed context, fixed message. People are the ones born ignorant and allowed time to grow and develop biologically, psychologically and sociologically. As a child grows from his birth he keeps learning and builds his life experience and that helps him understand things he need to understand as he goes along. This is why the quran cannot be understood by people who ignore self awareness and awareness of universal realities because then you have nothing to help you make sense of things all around you. If you have no sense of what you see and hear then you have no sense of anything at all let alone sense of message of Allah.
Can you judge or decide anything sensibly without drawing from your own life experiences so far? No, you cannot. This is why by putting the quran directly in conflict with real world realities through false or make belief based interpretations you are proving the quran false. So if anyone was aalim of the quran, he could not be this stupid. So those who claim to be aalim of the quran yet have no sense they are falsely claiming to be aalim of the quran. The main point in the quran is do not follow even your own ancestors if they are running after false beliefs ie make beliefs. So how can such people be ulema who are not based upon proof and proving and are they more caring for us than our own parents and relatives? If it was only mater of following people blindly then ancestor following could not have been condemned such forcefully in the quran repeatedly. If parents are not to be followed then why the ulema a people you do not even know as much as you know your own parents? So one can see very clearly that blind faith is condemned by the quran.
I hope this makes my position very clear for you and people you claim to be ulema of deen. As for yourself, do you know what proof is? If you do please explain. So that I could see where you are coming from and so that I could clarify my position further for your proper understanding of things.
my regards and best wishes.